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Fortune Brands Home & Security (
FBHS) pushed the Consumer Durables industry higher today making it today's featured consumer durables winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Fortune Brands Home & Security rose 36 cents (1.1%) to $33.61 on light volume. Throughout the day, 846,861 shares of Fortune Brands Home & Security exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.5 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $33.19-$33.62 after having opened the day at $33.26 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $33.25. Other companies within the Consumer Durables industry that increased today were:
Industrie Natuzzi (
NTZ), up 5%,
Elecsys Corporation (
ESYS), up 4.3%,
Knoll (
KNL), up 3.4%, and
Hasbro (
HAS), up 2.9%.

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Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. provides home and security products for use in residential home repair, remodeling, new construction, and security and storage applications. Fortune Brands Home & Security has a market cap of $5.27 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 36.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 11% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there is one analyst that rates Fortune Brands Home & Security a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Fortune Brands Home & Security as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, revenue growth and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the growth in the company's earnings per share has not been good.